FOUR people were injured after shots were fired from a car at a Liverpool nightclub during the early hours of the morning.

The shooting happened just after 5am yesterday as two people, believed to be from the Cheshire area, left the Pleasure Rooms club on Wolstenholme Square in the city centre.

The shots were fired, as the clubbers and staff left the club, from a black Ford Orion which then drove off.

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said two members of staff and the two visitors to the club received minor injuries following the shooting.

She said their wounds were thought to be mainly caused by flying glass.

The spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: "The four people injured have been taken to hospital where they are being treated.

"Crime scene investigators have attended the scene and found what appeared to be pellets in the damaged door."

She said minutes after the attack a black Ford Orion was seen by police driving along Fenwick Street and then Great Howard Street before turning into the car park of Costco where it was abandoned.

Officers arrested four people at the scene and the car was seized for forensic examination by police investigators.

The police spokeswoman said: "At this stage of the investigation it is unclear what the motive was for the attack or who the intended target may have been.

"Police are examining CCTV footage and carrying out extensive investigations around Wolstenholme Square."

Two men aged 17 and 18 and two girls who were arrested were last night being questioned by police at stations on Merseyside.

Police have also appealed to any one who may have witnessed the shooting to contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

* ARMED police in Toxteth stopped a car and arrested two people yesterday afternoon.

A witness said he saw ten police cars surrounding the Audi A4 near the junction of Cedar Grove and Lodge Lane just after 1pm.

The man said he had seen the activity from a window, and added: "I think they had been following the car, but I hadn't heard anything. But then there were a lot of cars and police pointing guns. The car was surrounded, and then the police opened all the doors."

A spokesman for Merseyside Police last night confirmed two people had been arrested at that location by armed police.